THE INTERRUPTION

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 19, 22 July 1933, Page 7

THE INTERRUPTION

(By "Norah of Billabong.V)

Joan and some of her school" mates) were sitting, in front;:of the;fire, look* ing dreamily into it. .. Everything outside was wrapped in darkness, and all was still except for the gentle sighing of the wind in the pines. They had been sitting telling stories —stories o£ ghost-hunts. Suddenly a piercing cry rent the still* ness of the night. Then another an<f another. The chums looked at eachj other in amazement. All except Joan« Sho was frozen stiff. She knew what it meant. '

There -was an old legend about Joan'l home, of how a ghost was supposed toj walk in the halls once in every hun« dred years. Joan had not believed itj until now.

She looked at her chums and gaspedj "I—it's the old g-g-ghostl" and she] dashed across the room and out intoj the hall, her chums following closely) behind. There at the end of the pas* sage was the willowy f orni of a. younjj girl in white. She was turning a cor* ncr in the passage.

The girls looked at. each other iii dismay; then Miriam, the most darinjj of them, gave chase. At the turning in the corridor she -stopped, for the; form was just disappearing througW the wall. She ran to the place- and could find no opening, and running hei) hand up and down the wall found ai small button.- She pressed it, and inw mediately there spread before her a' yawning cavity which was a room. Sha! stepped in and there in the comer was a figure bending over a pile of jewels.

Later it was found that the" figure) was one of the maids, who had triied toi steal the family jewels. Thanks toj Miriam the thief was caught;-so thai girls returned to the room and «ftt before the fire to discuss the eventi of the evening. ■